Rheumatism

Diseases that affect the bones and soft tissue in the body causing intense pain and difficulty in movement are generically called Rheumatism although this term is used less and less in medical context and has been replaced by specific conditions such as Rheumatoid arthritis, Psoriatic arthritis, back pain, neck pain, lupus, osteoarthritis, tendinitis, fibromyalgia, bursitis and capsulitis, rheumatic fever, rheumatic heart disease, carpal tunnel syndrome to cite the major ones.

A vast number of traditional herbal remedies were recommended for "rheumatism". Modern medicine, both conventional and complementary, recognises that the different rheumatic conditions have different causes, with several of them having multiple causes, and require different and individually appropriate kinds of treatment.